The Saratoga Race Course will host a barbecue to bring this year’s season, the 141st, to a close on Monday (9/7). The official name of the event is the Times Union All-American Labor Day Barbeque. There will be selections including hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, salad, dessert and more at the At the Rail and Paddock […]
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Though France is considered the prime source for Périgord truffles, low yields have shifted attention to the Australian town of Manjimup, which is projecting an enormous harvest. The Australian government has funded research aimed at understanding the unpredictable growing patterns of the prized fungus.
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You can hunt the critters in New York and Vermont starting Sept. 1. New York’s limit is six per day. Aficionados say the meeat is sweet and its texture analogous to lamb. Here’s an entertaining story from Louisiana’s Evangeline Parish, where opening day of squirrel season is a school holiday. Short version: Elsewhere, squirrels might […]
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Sheila Lukins, food editor for Parade magazine and influential entrepreneur and cookbook author, has died at age 66. With business partner Julee Rosso, she opened one of the nation’s first gourmet takeout shops, Silver Palate Restaurant, and wrote one of the top 10 best-selling cookbooks of all time, “The Silver Palate.”
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Here’s a news story I hope will never be necessary in New York, from the Arizona Republic: Bar and restaurant owners are scrambling to post new signs banning firearms in their establishments before a new concealed-carry law takes effect this month. Starting Sept. 29, gun owners with permits to carry concealed weapons will be able […]
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My friend, fellow pork enthusiast and food blogger Mike Hess has a fun post up detailing his birthday cake, which his wife had created to look like a butcher’s diagram of a pig. To suggest authenticity when cutting up the thing, it’s a red velvet cake, of course. More photos here.
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Stewart’s Shops has temporarily renamed its ice cream flavor Fireworks, featuring vanilla ice cream with cherry swirl and red and blue Pop Rocks, as All-America City Ice Cream, in observance of the city of Albany recently receiving the designation. The name will be in effect through Sept. 12. Mayor Jerry Jennings will be scooping the […]
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Update: The dinner has been moved to Franklin Plaza in Troy. Tosca Grille in Troy and Capital District Community Gardens are teaming up for a benefit dinner, scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Tosca Franklin Plaza, that will feature 15 of the area’s top culinary talents using ingredients from more than two dozen […]
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A haunted pub crawl, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16, will visit a variety of watering holes in Saratoga Springs (list TBA). The tour will feature history, architecture, mystery, parapsychology, occultism, the ghosts of Saratoga and drink specials created by the pubs especially for the haunted crawl. The cost is $20 […]
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A growing list of Troy restaurants are participating in a pilot program called Rensselaer Advantage Dollar (RAD) that allows RPI students, faculty and staff to load dollars onto their RPI ID cards and use them at the restaurants. The program coincides with the recent opening of the new Howard N. Blitman, P.E. ’50 Residence Commons, […]
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